Central Eastern Europe is full of statues memorializing kings, poets, and the victims of war. The Baltic States especially since the collapse of the USSR have been trying to assert their national identity after decades of systematic attempts to erase their language and culture. Soviet monuments have been controversial in the region since the collapse in 1991. Today, the host James Orban discusses a recent issue with these statues and how they are fundamentally different from someone paying respect to the war dead.

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